From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] SSH xterm not working properly during install
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 15:42:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200708194229.GB1898@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <re4irq$gh7$1@ciao.gmane.io>
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 01:48:42PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote
> I've been installing Gentoo that way for almost 20 years and never had
> a problem. I very rarely use xterm though -- I used aterm for years,
> switched to rxvt, and then to urxvt.
As I mentioned in another post, the "toe" command shows which TERM
types you terminal supports. xterm (the app) doesn't support "linux"
TERM type. The solution was to set TERM to "xterm" at both ends.
Basically, run "toe" on both machines and find a common entry that they
both support.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-08 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-08 2:02 [gentoo-user] SSH xterm not working properly during install Walter Dnes
2020-07-08 4:06 ` tastytea
2020-07-08 4:40 ` Walter Dnes
2020-07-08 4:58 ` Grant Taylor
2020-07-08 7:46 ` William Kenworthy
2020-07-08 19:35 ` [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] " Walter Dnes
2020-07-08 13:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-07-08 19:42 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2020-07-09 6:20 ` [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] " Walter Dnes
2020-07-09 2:05 ` [gentoo-user] " james
2020-07-09 2:41 ` james
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